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Global Meeting of Interlaw Marketing Professionals
15-16 April 2004
Dallas, Texas U.S.A.
Hosted By: Thompson & Knight LLP (Texas)
Becky Jackson Becky.Jackson@tklaw.com +214.969.1478
Regina A. McConahay rmcconahay@interlaw.org +310.556.0844

The Americas – Regional Meeting
30 April – 1 May 2004
Miami, Florida U.S.A.
Hosted by: Akerman Senterfitt (Florida)
Lisa A. Landy llandy@akerman.com
+305.982.5691

Interlaw North America Real Estate Special Business Team
29-30 April 2004 in conjunction with the Americas Meeting in Miami
Julius Schwarz jschwarz@akerman.com +305.374.5600
NARE Chair: lcornett@airdberlis.com  +416.863.1500

Annual Meeting of ACC (Association of Corporate Counsel)
(Formerly ACCA; American Corp Counsel Ass.; member sponsorship available)
25-27 October 2004
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
Regina A. McConahay rmcconahay@interlaw.org  +310.556.0844

Interlaw’s 2004 Annual Global Meeting (AGM)
31 October- 3 November 2004
Guangzhou, The People’s Republic of China 
Hosted by: Stevenson, Wong & Co. (Hong Kong)
Angus H. Forsyth angusforsyth.office@sw-hk.com +852.2533.2500
Lai Lam lai.lam@sw-hk.com

Asia Pacific – Regional Meeting
30 October 2004, in conjunction with the Annual Global Meeting
Guangzhou, The People’s Republic of China

Europe/Middle East/Africa – Regional Meeting
20-23 May 2004
Madrid, Spain
Hosted by: Gomez-Acebo & Pombo Abogados (Spain)
Fernando de Las Cuevas  fcuevas@gomezacebo-pombo.com  +34.91.582.9100
Rosana Rumschisky Terminielo rosana@gomezacebo-pombo.com

Interlaw European IP/IT Special Business Team
Inaugural Face to Face Meeting
19-20 May 2004 in conjunction with Regional Meeting of E/ME/A in Madrid
Luis Fernandez Novoa lfnovoa@gomezacebo-pombo.com
Rosana Rumschisky Terminielo rosana@gomezacebo-pombo.com

The Secretariat has posted an online photo album and has issued an email invitation to Interlaw Contacts with instructions to view, share, and even to purchase individual photographs of the Annual Global Meeting in London. If you would like to view AGM photographs, please send me an email.

Changing of the Guard: Interlaw Interviews Jim Harrowell

Immediate Past Chair Steven K. Weinberg (L) Kronish Lieb Weiner & Hellman, LLP (New York) and an accommodating Beefeater at the Tower of London officially transfer the Interlaw chairmanship to Jim Harrowell (R) of Hunt & Hunt (Sydney). Click image above for a larger view.

Interlaw's vice chair for Asia Pacific Jim Harrowell, former managing partner of Hunt & Hunt (Sydney) was unanimously elected chair of the Interlaw Board of Directors at the conclusion of the 2003 Annual Global Meeting in London. Mr. Harrowell, who takes the helm from Steven K. Weinberg, Kronish Lieb Weiner & Hellman LLP (New York) has been an active member of the Board of Directors for five years, including two years served in the newly created position of vice chair for the Asia Pacific Region. Full Story

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Annual Global Meeting: Provides Interlawyers With Globalization Perspective

Delegates and invited guests of the 2003 Annual Global Meeting in London. Click image above for a larger view.

Interlaw's most well attended Annual Global Meeting in the history of the Association hosted by SJ Berwin (London) offerred an agenda that examined "Globalization - Opportunity or Threat" from multiple pragmatic perspectives including economics, social responsibility, productivity, technology, and management of the business of law. The meeting provided a solid professional development program through panels comprised of leading economists, corporate counsel, and business executives. Delegates shared their experiences in a series of table discussions and regional break out sessions. Full Story 

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Swedish Law Firm Joins Interlaw

Thomas Nygren, President, Hamilton & Co.

One of Sweden's top-ten law firms, Hamilton & Co., has joined Interlaw. Founded in 1954 as an insolvency practice, the firm has grown steadily over the past decade and currently employs more than seventy attorneys. Its Interlaw offices, offering complete corporate and commercial legal services, include Stockholm, Falun, Karlstad, Malmö and Växjö. The firm is dedicated to serving clients in all industry sectors and in all areas of business and commercial law. Full Story 

 

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INTERLAWYER of the Year 2003: Jan Waselius, Waselius & Wist

It was a surprised and an endearingly humble Jan Waselius of Waselius & Wist (Helsinki) who was called forward at the Annual Global Meeting in London to receive the 2003 Interlawyer of the Year Award.  Mr. Waselius was a unanimous choice of the Interlaw Board for the honor, which is given annually to the Interlawyer who demonstrates loyalty, dedication, and leadership within the Association.  In his last official act as Chair, Steven Weinberg, of Kronish Lieb Weiner & Hellman LLP (New York) spoke eloquently of Mr. Waselius’ untiring advocacy of Interlaw’s strategic growth in emerging economic regions. Full Story 

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Interlaw News: Annual Survey Results

Each year, and for the past decade, Interlaw Contacts are sent a questionnaire that surveys referral activity and member satisfaction for the previous fiscal year. Both the number of referrals and the revenue they generate are tracked so that the Board and Secretariat can make an informed assessment of the network's effectiveness, and if necessary, make appropriate modifications and adjustments. There is a peer review segment of the survey in which member firms rate their satisfaction with other firms they have referred matters to. Full Story  

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Interlaw News: Special Business Teams

Click here for an update on meetings and progress of the North America Real Estate, Rainmakers, and European IP/IT Special Business Teams.  

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Regional Views: North America: Brand Investment: Going Global via Madrid 
by: Andrew J. Ferren and Elizabeth C. Myers, Goulston & Storrs (Boston, Massachusetts) 

The Madrid Protocol: It sounds like a spy novel, but it is actually an international treaty that facilitates trademark protection in most of the world·s major economies. As of November 2, 2003, the United States has become one of some sixty Madrid Protocol "member" countries, and this promises to revolutionize foreign registration procedures for trademark owners based in the U.S. Full Story 

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Regional Views: Latin America: Commentary From Brasil on the Brasil Round 5 and the Country's Thermoelectric Priority Program 
by: David Andrew Taylor, Garcia & Keener Advogados (Rio de Janeiro) 

On 19 and 20 August 2003, Brazil’s National Petroleum Agency (ANP) held its Brasil Round 5 ("Round 5") of oil and natural gas exploration block concession bidding. Introducing a new "cell" block subdivision and other significant contractual changes, the round set local minimum content requirements that were intended to stimulate and protect the local petroleum industry and sought to attract small-sized oil company participation, both Brasilian and foreign, which had been lacking from the previous rounds. The results of Round 5 were successful in these respects. Full Story 

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Regional Views: Europe/Middle East/Africa: Commodity Legal Services in the UK Market
by: John Urquhart, Morton Fraser Direct (Edinburgh)

In recent years, a whole new area of legal practice has developed in the UK to service high volume process-driven work, principally emanating from the banking and insurance sectors. The market is dominated by a small number of law firms which have made huge investments in technology, human resources and infrastructure to secure and maintain a position in what they see as the potentially lucrative practice area of commodity legal services. Debt recovery and personal injury litigation are among the practice areas heavily commoditised, but the prime example arises from the explosion in home re-financing, or remortgaging as it is called here. Full Story 

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Regional Views: Asia Pacific: The New Trade Marks Ordinance for Hong Kong
by: Angus Forsyth, Stevenson & Wong (Hong Kong)

At long last the reform of Hong Kong's trade mark law (the Trade Marks Ordinance) which was enacted by the legislature in June 2000 and delayed for technical reasons, came into effect on 4th April 2003 ("the Effective Date"), bringing our trade mark law in line with current international practices. The new law is said to be able to provide a more streamlined procedure for trade mark registration which is quicker, easier and cheaper. In addition, it will be possible to register distinctive sounds and smells as trade marks. Full Story 

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Vol.14, No.4 -- October/November/December 2003

Editor: Regina A. McConahay (regina@interlaw.org)

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